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Pastoral Care: Body Image

hotlines, guidelines and crisis intervention contacts; and support for pastoral care for children, tweens, teens, families, differently abled persons, elders and folks with memory concerns; including mindfulness, personal care and volunteer support

Books - Adults

Fat Church | Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation (Kidd)     The Me I Was Made to Be     My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is SickĀ      My Body Is Good     Sensual Faith     Weightless     Your Body Is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth

Books - Children & Youth

Duck, Duck, Tiger     Every Body     It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health  (The Family Library): Harris, Robie H., Emberley, Michael: 9780763668723:  Amazon.com: Books     It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families  (The Family Library): Harris, Robie H., Emberley, Michael: 9780763600518:  Amazon.com: Books

Multimedia

The Girls Are Not Okay: And evangelical theology bears a significant part of the blame

On Not Taking Lent out on Our Bodies

By Jodi Belcher (she/her/hers) in Building Faith on Feb 07, 2023

Colorful image of fat woman with arms outstretched and reaching backwardsWelcome to Fat Church

Spreading a Gospel of Body Liberation

United Church of Christ pastor and theological educator Anastasia Kidd reviews the history of medicalized diet culture, fat studies, beauty, body policing—and the white supremacist machinations underpinning them—in order to advocate for a society rooted in bodily liberation for all. Fat Church offers a disruption to social habits of shame and remembers the theology of abundance that calls us all beloved by God.

In Our Library - Children/Intergenerational

In Our Library - Adults

Body: A Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person     Divining the Body Cover     The Life of the Body